![]() Many of her readers were, no doubt, influential and involved in the nascent conservation movement of the later 19th century.īird's published letters describing her travels in Colorado and especially Estes Park, praised the mountains for their healing power and their sublime beauty. ![]() Her book sold like hotcakes, mostly in the eastern United States and in Britain, where a reading public just becoming interested in wilderness travel and conservation was hungry for news of far-flung scenery. Considering the influence of the book that told the story of her travels in Colorado, Bird might easily merit the sobriquet "Mother" of Rocky Mountain National Park. But Bird's importance to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park is much greater than notoriety and adventure. Isabella Bird, the intrepid Victorian traveler, is famous for her 1873 ascent of Longs Peak and her ostensible romance with the wild Estes Park mountain man, James Nugent. ![]()
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